When I was very young in the early 90s, my father had this game involving space ships in very basic polygon form, barely shaded, in various colors attacking you and trying to destroy pods that you were trying to retrieve. The pods were octohedral and purple if I remember correctly. I asked my fat...

I'm looking for a particular game I used to play in the 90s.
It was for the Macintosh, so the era would be mid-to-late 1990s.
It was a space game with 3D graphics on a 2D background. You start out as a small cargo ship, and the point is to eventually become rich. It's very open-world (or open-ga...

When I play Continuous Game mode, I always end up with the situation of needing some resource that I can't harvest from my initial settlement island. So, I settle on a new island that has those resources, but then I'm stuck manually moving the stuff from one settlement onto my ship and vice versa...

OK, I've got a PC version of Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 on PC CD-ROM, but I've upgraded to a Mac (MacBook Pro OSX Snow Leopard specifically) and I want to re-install it.
I understand there are a number of options for running PC games/software on a Mac, such as Wine, VirtualBox or BootCamp.
I alread...

macro is currently used for wildly different topics:
Macro as used by (mostly) Starcraft2 questions (Examples: 1, 2)
Macro as in scripting; (mostly World of Warcraft questions)
I'd suggest creating a new tag scripting and changing the ones that refer to macro in the sense of scripting to it.
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Okay, so I have been working on a little platforming game,its pretty much complete.
Played successfully on four computers, but none with CPU’smore powerful than 2.4ghz. However when I sent it to my friend who has a 3.8ghzi7, he noticed that the jump height of the character was about 10 pixels le...

Someone in a chat I'm in with said "another celebrity parasite dead of overindulgence. forgive me if i have more sympathy for innocent Norwegians, Afghanis, and Iraqis than her." I just put him on ignore, cuz he's a dick in general anyway and arguing with him would've just made me pissed off.

my mom's cousin died last fall from lung cancer, a childhood friend's father was diagnosed with stage IV lymph node cancer last fall, another friend's father died of stage IV liver cancer, a friend of mine's father died last week from prostate cancer

The Spiral Knights starter pack includes weapon and trinket upgrades. It's totally unclear if they are immediately activated as you buy it, or if they are like a "token" which you can activate when you wish.

This is a cool thing someone is trying to start at reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/ixo7u/this_week_in_gaming_july_17_23/
I don't think SE format is better at that particular weekly update type thing (reddit isn't really either) but I think it's neat and thought I'd mention it in ...

@ArdaXi Actually no, I did not. I'm trying to get the descriptions for tags. I've already learned that the tag has an entry in Posts and via that I can find the description. But I'm unable to see how to get the Post.Id for a given Tag

Valve Anti-Cheat, abbreviated to VAC, is an anti-cheat solution developed by Valve Corporation as a component of the Steam game development platform.
History
VAC was first released with Counter-Strike 1.4 in 2002, following Valve's decision to forego PunkBuster in preference of a proprietary system. The initial version, VAC1, saw success for a period, but in March or April 2004 updates ran dry as the Valve engineers maintaining it moved on to the production of its successor, VAC2.
Valve does not normally discuss VAC, and very little is known about its internal workings. However, on Nov...

Godwin's law (also known as Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogies or Godwin's Law of Nazi Analogies) is a humorous observation made by Mike Godwin in 1990 In other words, Godwin put forth the hyperbolic observation that, given enough time, in any online discussion—regardless of topic or scope—someone inevitably criticizes some point made in the discussion by comparing it to beliefs held by Hitler and the Nazis.
Godwin's law is often cited in online discussions as a deterrent against the use of arguments in the widespread Reductio ad Hitlerum form. The rule does not make any statemen...